World without Children: Voices From and Around the Manger Christianity around the globe traditionally reads and reflects the life enhancing activities in the birth narratives of Jesus in the Gospels. Characters that fascinate us during such reflections are baby Jesus, Manger, Crib, Christmas-tree, Star, Angel, Joseph, Mary, Shepherds, Wisemen with expensive gifts, and animals in the stable. Most of our celebrations and greetings are not without their depiction. They have projecting the Christmas as only ‘celebration’. While it is not at all completely off track itself to ‘celebrate’ Christmas, one’s reading of the scripture should span the peril that Jesus and other children around the time of Jesus’ birth went through. Children below two years of age became an endangered lot instantly. Forced migration and escape for life certainly add new dimensions to theological, missiological, and social thinking of the churches. In fact the popular superficio-mystical religiosity and spirituality